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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2025-5889

Low
2.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function "expand" of the file "index.js". The manipulation leads to Inefficient Regular Expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue affects brace-expansion package versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.11, 2.0.0 through 2.0.1, 3.0.0, 4.0.0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published